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How to print a word document in java?

I have a word document(Contains 5 pages of text) in a folder i have to print this word document from my java program. Is it possible for me to print it.

If is, can I print PDF file also?

Narendranath

ASKER

Please send me the solution with example.

anhphuongnn

hi,

You can read this docment

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/jps/spec/JPSTOC.fm.html

Best Regard
PhuongNguyen

anhphuongnn

hi,

You can read this docment

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/jps/spec/JPSTOC.fm.html

Best Regard
PhuongNguyen

Narendranath

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https://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qManageQuestion.jsp?ta=java&qid=20149703
contains javax.print.*;
API but i am using java.awt.print API
can you tell me how to print word document using
this API.

Narendranath

ASKER

How to print the word document in java 1.2
i am not able to print word document and PDF files.
please tell me the solution for this.
its very urgent for my application.
thanks.

Narendranath

ASKER

Hello expert
I am waiting for your reply please send me the solution for my problem.

Jim Cakalic

You can exec Acrobat with appropriate command line parameters to print a PDF. The command line parameters for Acrobat and Reader are as shown below (from Adobe documentation). These are unsupported but have worked for many developers.

AcroRd32.exe /p filename - executes the Reader and prints a file

AcroRd32.exe /t path printername drivername portname - Initiates Acrobat Reader, prints a file while suppressing the Acrobat print dialog box, then terminates Reader. The four parameters of the /t option evaluate to path, printername, drivername, and portname (all strings).
printername - The name of your printer.
drivername - Your printer driver's name. Whatever appears in the Driver Used box when you view your printer's properties.
portname - The printer's port. portname cannot contain any "/" characters; if it does, output is routed to the default port for that printer.

Note: If using Acrobat, substitute Acrobat.exe in place of AcroRd32.exe in the command lines.

Actually exec'ing the AcroRd32.exe from Java can be somewhat troublesome as its location is not typically in the PATH environment variable. Like good win32 applications, it registers itself in the Windows registry. You can access the Windows registry from a Java program using a free package called JObjects from JST. The URL to the download page for JObjects is:
http://www.jobjects.com/downloads/index.html

As I've needed to do this before, I have written the small utility class below that uses JObjects to find the registered path to an executable. The main shows how the class can be used. It uses the class to try to find the path to whatever is supplied as the first command line argument and then calls exec() using that path to start the program. To start the Acrobat Reader, you'd run it like:
java WinRegPath acrord32.exe

---------- WinRegPath.java ----------
import com.jobjects.jst.*;
import java.util.*;

public class WinRegPath {
private static final String subkey = "Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\";

private static final int topkey = RegistryKey.KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;

public WinRegPath() {
// check registry support
if (!SystemToolkit.doesSupportRegistry()) {
System.out.println("No registry support.");
}
}

public String getPath(String executable) {
if (SystemToolkit.doesSupportRegistry() == false) {
return null;
}
try {
RegistryManager regManager = SystemToolkit.getRegistryManager();
RegistryKey key = regManager.openRegistryKey(topkey, subkey + executable);

if (key.exists()) {
// enumerate properties
Enumeration e = key.properties();
while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
String name = (String)e.nextElement();
String val = key.getStringProperty(name);
//System.out.println("'" + name + "'" + " = " + val );
if (name.length() == 0) {
return val;
}
}
}
} catch (RegistryException re) {
re.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
WinRegPath regpath = new WinRegPath();
String path = regpath.getPath(args[0]);
if (path != null) {
System.out.println("exec'ing: " + path);
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(path);
}
}
}
---------- end ----------

As for printing from MS Word, winword does not have a command line switch for printing. I've achieved limited success using the command line switch to invoke standard macros. For example, using the above code:
java WinRegPath winword.exe junk.doc /mFilePrintDefault

will print the document but leaves the word window running. The FileExit macro will exit word but you'll get a dialog because it is trying to print in the background. So there may be a solution with macros but I don't know it. What I do understand will work is DDE. I haven't tried it, but the technique (using another freeware package since you can't 'DDE' from Java natively) is demonstrated at http://www.home.fh-karlsruhe.de/~sehe0012/studies/neusoft/week22.html.

Best regards,
Jim Cakalic

Narendranath

ASKER

Hello sir,
i am using MS NT OS.
I want to print a Doc file present in c:/MyProject folder.
and i have downloaded the jar file for the specified URL.
now can you tell me how to send the parameter to the file you have given.

Narendranath

ASKER

Hello expert i am not getting the subkey in you code. can you please elaborate on this.

Jim Cakalic

OK. I assume you already did the following:

- download jst12.zip at the JObjects URL in my previous post
- unzip the archive in a folder of your choosing which I'll refer to as JST_HOME
- added JST_HOME/lib/jst.jar to your CLASSPATH
- cut the code from my post and paste it into a file named WinRegPath.java
- compile WinRegPath.java

Use the Start/Run dialog to run regedit. Navigate to the subkey identified in the code: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/App Paths. At this location you will find all the registered 32-bit applications. Verify that the application you are trying to invoke is registered. The Acrobat Reader will be registered as AcroRd32.exe. Microsoft Word will be registered as Winword.exe. If you don't find these keys then either you don't have the applications installed or they are not installed correctly.

The registry keys are not case sensitive. But otherwise the values must match exactly. This means you cannot leave off the extension as you might when invoking an application from the DOS command line. So when attempting to find the path for Word, you cannot simply use "winword" as the first argument to WinRegPath. You _must_ use "winword.exe". The same is true for Acrobat: you _must_ use "acrord32.exe".

Best regards,
Jim Cakalic

Narendranath

ASKER

Hello expert thanks for the solution but it is a partial.
i am able to print the pdf file from the command prompt but, if I give the same from the java file it is showing the error as "There was an error opening this document. the file does not exist".

i am using the following command in my java file.

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 5.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe /p naren.pdf");

i am using
"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 5.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe /p naren.pdf"

in command prompt.
can you tell me what is the problem with me.
please it is very urgent.

Jim Cakalic

Sounds like the working directory of AcroRd32 is not where naren.pdf is located. Try specifying the full path name to the pdf file and see if that solves your problem.

Jim

Narendranath

ASKER

Thank you Jim.
I got the solution for my problem
can you do me one more favour. what is the command in command prompt to print a word file.
tell me the correct format to print naren.doc which in c:\naren.doc folder.

Thank you very much jim.

Narendranath

ASKER

Ok Jim i got the solution for all the issues.
Thankyou very much jim

Jim Cakalic

So you can now print both pdf and word files from the command prompt? Great! Glad to help.
Jim

Narendranath

ASKER

Jim I have one more problem.
How to see the priveiw of the document what we are going to print.
is there any method to achieve this.Please send me the same.

Jim Cakalic

I don't know about PDF. Word has a macro FilePrintPreview that can be called from the command line to present the normal Word print preview window. But I'm not sure whether that is what you want.

Jim

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